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andrel wrote:
> POV and Blender?
POV, certainly, yes. I don't know enough about Maya and those others to know
if Blender is particularly innovative. I suspect not, since it was developed
initially by experienced animators. Thanks for the suggestion, tho.
> Check out the works of Don Knuth. E.g. TeX and Metafont are fully
> documented and source is available as books.
Yep. Read them 15 years ago or so. :-) Good stuff. Thanks!
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!
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andrel escreveu:
> On 3-4-2009 18:40, Darren New wrote:
>> Please, this is not a troll. It's a serious question that isn't meant
>> to imply the answer is "no."
>
> 'No' would be a strange answer to your question anyway.
>
>> What are some other cool open-source projects that didn't take their
>> design from existing products? I.e., ones where the open source
>> software was the first thing to do things that way?
>
> POV and Blender?
Blender started life as an in-house, proprietary tool. When the company
was closing doors, they realized the tool was quite complete and good
enough perhaps not for going commercial, but at least to serve as the
basis for an open-source project. And so they realized an online
auction and when a certain ammount was gathered, they did release the
source under the GPL.
The community literally bought a former proprietary product and
open-sourced it. Even Stallman gone hurrah. :)
--
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On Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:08:30 -0300, nemesis wrote:
> When the company
> was closing doors, they realized the tool was quite complete and good
> enough perhaps not for going commercial
I understood that it used to be commercially available....
Jim
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nemesis wrote:
> The community literally bought a former proprietary product and
> open-sourced it. Even Stallman gone hurrah. :)
I'd read about the first part, but not the auction. That's pretty clever.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!
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Darren New <dne### [at] san rrcom> wrote:
> nemesis wrote:
> > C++/Haskell/Lisp/Tcl all at the same time!
>
> I know Tcl. I'm trying to learn Python. ;-)
Hey, me too. I'm in love already. With numpy and scipy too, I can control the
hardware, collect data, and process it efficiently in the same language! It's
really a great compromise. And dictionaries? Outstanding.
- Ricky
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triple_r wrote:
> And dictionaries? Outstanding.
Actually, python dictionaries are pretty lame compared to dictionaries in
some other languages, like PHP. Lots of good uses for them, but they're
really nothing more than a hashtable.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!
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Darren New wrote:
> nemesis wrote:
>> The community literally bought a former proprietary product and
>> open-sourced it. Even Stallman gone hurrah. :)
>
> I'd read about the first part, but not the auction. That's pretty clever.
Pretty much like the ones you spot from time to time in the headers of
wikipedia. It was an amazing event in any way.
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Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:08:30 -0300, nemesis wrote:
>
>> When the company
>> was closing doors, they realized the tool was quite complete and good
>> enough perhaps not for going commercial
>
> I understood that it used to be commercially available....
Not quite sure about that. But the company was definitely closing doors
and seemingly not interested in maintaining it though they saw its value.
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Darren New wrote:
> Actually, python dictionaries are pretty lame compared to dictionaries
> in some other languages, like PHP.
I don't know PHP, so I'm curious if you could elaborate a bit, since I'm
used to viewing "dictionary" as more of less a synonym for "hashtable"
in this context.
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Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Actually, python dictionaries are pretty lame compared to dictionaries in
> some other languages, like PHP.
Really? Interesting, but perhaps I should clarify. The only other languages I
know are C/C++, Fortran, Matlab, and... let's see... POV-Ray? I'm sure they're
perfectly capable, but having it built in is really great.
- Ricky
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